WRDS subscribers can access a Trial of the new Markit Securities Finance and Credit Indices data.

HIGHLIGHTS
• More than $15 trillion of global securities in the lending programs of 20,000+ institutional funds
• 3 million intraday transactions with 8+ years of daily history
• Data is sourced directly from leading industry practitioners — prime brokers, custodians, asset managers and hedge funds

Why Markit Securities Finance (MSF) Data?Wider cross sectional coverage: MSF data is not from a single proprietary data source, which guarantees a much wider cross-sectional coverage. This broad market representation can largely eliminate biases caused by coverage niche by the data provider (e.g., small cap stocks, or certain economic sectors).